The globalization of the fruit and vegetable trade -- The consolidation and globalization of grocery stores -- Marketing ethnic foods at the supermarket -- The changing American restaurant -- Cookbooks navigate the globe -- Indian restaurants in American : a case study in translating diversity -- Chinese food from Chinatown to the suburbs -- Tortilla politics -- Conclusion : what is an authentic taco?
Summary:
"Americans of the 1960s, accustomed to frozen dinners and soupy casseroles, would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. There, they would find once-exotic ingredients-like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk-that have become standard in contemporary Americans' diets. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded, even as food companies have consolidated. These changes reflect other transformations in transportation, suburbanization, immigration, and global production. Drawing on menus, cookbooks, trade publications, interviews, and company records, Jayasanker explores Americans' changing eating habits to illuminate the impacts of globalization and immigration on American culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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